San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-17
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

| punity.
THE evening paper tries its prentice
hand on the side head" and IL look
like the ear OF destiny on the of side OF
very small head OF events. Too mncl
ear for horse and hardly enough for
mules father.
Or the twenty thousand soldiers II
the great military parade, over one
| fourth were veterans Of the Union army
| Nearly 5000 members OF the Crane
army OF the republic were In line. Will
| them patriotism was stronger thar
mere personal feeling.
The condemned anarchists after &
spirited discussion remain undecided
| over the question OF appealing to the
supreme court, three OF them opposing
any farther action. They all indlgnan ~
reject the proposition to appea! TO ex'
ecutive olemency.
The revised anti-prohlbitiOn MAORI
| ty, rs given from Austin, Is now 81 ,357
| The figures sent the LIGHT Were In ex'
cess OF $4,000 and almost the same re.
suits were telegraphed New Orleans
IL takes the revisers some time to revise
The result is satisfactory either way.
The American party, so called, has
had Its first meeting, Its first disagree
ment, its first row, and its first break up
The row was over motion to accept
report OF committee on platform, what
ever Ii might be, without debate. The
gag law prevailed and the Americans
who could not stomach the un-American
proceeding. left the hall in disgust.
THE chapter of accidents at New Or.
leans is not yet ended. An entire family
burned to death in that city yesterday
al noon. The fire was caused by an ex-
plosion OF powder In the grocery room
down stairs, while the family were In
the upper stories, and all escape being
cut oil the father. mother and four child
rem were burned to death.
The recent manifesto Of the count OF
Paris, reminds one OF a former saying OF
the Boston Herald: "Tbe real preteDder
IN France Is not the Comte de Paris, or
Prince Victor Napoleon, not the DUO
d'Aumale or Prince Jerome; the real
pretender is the Paris workman. IL you
speak to him OF "the people, " 1t Is he and
Q alone, whom he supposes you mean.
He ignores the millions OF quiet peas
ants, and other rural labOrers; he is the
"soyereign people," That's also the
trouble with our friend George"
The prohibition war in Tenness ee
WAKES warm. The w. G. Il. U. are
pouring money and men into the state
as they did into this state iD July, and
they are predicting victory as the result
of the corrale1 negro vote. When Ii
comes to footing up the returns the w.
c. Il. u. will find that the negro vote on
this jug business is mighty uncertain"
The cOlored men Of Tennessee will DIFF
fer very materially from their brethren
in Texas II they bite at prohibition bait.
1t savOrs too much Of the old times "be-
fore the wah."
The preliminary trials are all ended
and the committee Of yachtsmen has de-
cided that the Volunteer must enter the
lists against the Thistle. The press re-
ports Of the trial and OF the utter inabil-
ity OF the Thistle TO match either the
Volunteer or the Mayflower, as shown
by her yesterdays handling, had better
be taken with good margin for allow
ance. 1t Is safe to say that no one on
this side the Atlantic. outside the own
ers and master OF the craft, have any
real idea OF the speed of the Thistle.
The recent accident at Exeter theater,
and yesterdays collision on the Mid
land road, may cause the critics who
have been Carping upon the inOOmp8r-
able safety of the English public from
distressing and fatal casualties TO revise
their conclusions and modify opinions.
What happens in one civilized country
Is very likely to happen In another.
England Ia only grease spot in area
compared to America, and the super
vision of her 5S,3ll square miles ia a
mere bRgatelle compared to the 4.O0O, 900
square miles of United States territory.
ACCORDING to the message OF President
Diaz, in opening the Mexican congress
yesterday, the sister republic is In the
highway of a great prosperity. He rele-
gates the cases OF trouble between that
country and this to the catalogue OF
differences between private citizens
naturally growing out Of border rela-
tiOns, and affirms.that the greatest cor
diately exists between the two govern
ments. In the matters of railroad eX-
tension, agricultural development, in
creased revenues and reduction of pub
lie debt he shows that the republic has
made excellent progress. The increase
in revenues from the July tariff is placed
atS2 900 cooper Rnnum and he announces
that Sll 100000 of the interior debt has
been hquidated.
WAS 1t emotion, fatigue, necessity,
spite, accident, or womanly resentment
against her husbands mortal enemies
that caused Mrs. Cleveland to retire
from the balcony during the passing Of
the Grand Army division in the military
review, and return again after they had
passed. 1T was the latter, every Grand
Army man will cheer her wifely devO-
ton. Mrs. Cleveland is not a public
character. She has not the public office,
which was paraded as public trust, to
uphold and has an absolute and unQues-
toned right to express her per8Onal and
public contempt for the soldiers OF the
Grand Army. AS president OF the re-
public her husband has not that right.
IT is openly charged by the Detroit
Tribune that after General Sheridan had
accepted his invitation to the annual re-
unto and had so informed the presi-
dent, his most high and mightlness, the
fat commander OF the federal forces Or
dered Little Phil to cancel his engage
ment at Detroit and assume command
OF the Philadelphia military parade. Gen.
Sheridan was at first detailed for duty
at Philadelphia, and recommended to
the president the appointment Of some
other officer that he might attend the
reunion of his comrades in arms at De-
troit. Then the president made the Or
der Imperative, as commander OF the
armies and navy Of the Republic, and OF
necessity Phil had to obey orders. 1t
was mighty small potatoes for Grover,
all the same, and is only one more straw
showing the presidential animus to-
wards the soldiers In their reunions.
Misery After Eating
Is avoided by dyspeptics who guided by the
recorded experience of thousands, begin and